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UN assembly to vote on Syria resolution

Sunday, August 12, 2012

UNITED NATIONS: Arab nations have dropped an explicit demand
for President Bashar al-Assad to quit, from a resolution on the Syria conflict
which was to be voted at the UN General Assembly yesterday..

With the international community reeling from the resignation
of UN-Arab League envoy Kofi Annan, the Arab League and their western
supporters are confident the resolution will be passed in the 193-member
assembly. But they have toned it down in a bid to get as big a majority as
possible.

Faced with opposition from some Arab and Latin American
countries, the resolution, drawn up by Saudi Arabia, has been stripped of the
demand for Assad to stand down and for the wider application of sanctions
ordered by the Arab League.

Russia and China, which have vetoed three UN Security
Council resolutions that could have led to sanctions against Assad’s
government, are expected to vote against the text. No country can veto a
resolution in the General Assembly however. A resolution passed by 137 votes to
12 on February 16 led to the creation of the special envoy’s post that Annan
was named to.

The draft resolution condemns the Syrian government’s use of
“heavy weapons” and its failure to withdraw troops and artillery from towns in
line with the peace plan that Assad agreed with Annan but has never carried
out.

Syrian activists say that more than 20,000 people have been
killed since an uprising against Assad erupted in March 2011.

The text demands that Syrian authorities stick to their
“obligations” under international law which ban the use of chemical weapons and
that all sides in Syria “implement rapidly” a political transition plan agreed
by the international powers on June 30.

“The aim is to increase pressure on the Assad government. We
want as many people to back this which is why some changes have been made,” one
Arab diplomat told AFP ahead of the vote.

Other diplomats said the initiative is a reflection of the
international frustration and anger felt at the failure of moves to put
pressure on the Syrian government, particularly the vetos by Russia and China.